Sunday, March 07, 2004

Dear Bay Area friends: I am coming to visit you! 

What is undergroundfilm.com? 

I just watched the CNN special on Joe Trippi. One thing stood out, if they believed in the Internet why didn't they use the Web to pump out the video that CNN wasn't showing? What I saw briefly, ironically on CNN, was very compelling. Didn't they get that they had another channel to communicate with voters. Word of mouth might have carried their point of view. At least they could have tried. If they trusted voters they would have ignored what the press and the other candidates and continued to go direct. It's also clear they peaked too soon. He won. But then, what did he win? With a year to go before the election, in late 2003, he won the right to be the guy everyone else targeted. It's the same problem Kerry has now. Too much time with nothing to do but lose. (The best defense is to create a new flow of information, to keep the news networks from driving you down the predictable road.) 

Andrew wants to launch an app with command-line params on Windows. 

If you ask What Is Friendship on Yahoo, the first hit is an essay I wrote on friendship. I like being an expert on that subject. I wrote that piece at a weird time. I want to take another look and see if I can't do better. 

Jeff Jarvis: "Scoble was vowing to try sticking to seven posts a day." 

Time: "Senator John Kerry tells Time that he 'almost certainly' will send a team to Iraq 'within the next few weeks or months' to help him formulate his Iraq policy positions." 

The Paint Research Association of the UK supports RSS. 

Slate reviews President Bush's new television ads. 

Variety, inside entertainment industry news from Hollywood, supports RSS. The hits keep comin!  

Rogers Cadenhead: "Considering that the format specification isn't even described as a draft yet, I couldn't blame UserLand or anyone else for waiting until things solidify or users clamor for support."